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may 07, 2015 - Beirut Art Center
Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, La Ribot. Aftercinema, at Beirut Art Center
Beirut Art Center presents Aftercinema, an exhibition that revolves around utilizing film and cinematic images as raw material for exploring, reconstructing and sharing inaccessible histories. The title, Aftercinema, does not suggest a temporal succession to a moment in cinematic production in order to deem it past, but rather reflects a common preoccupation among the artists with what is at the back of the image, on its sides or in the margins. There, life takes a different course and shapes our perception in a way that does not show in the foreground.
Aftercinema offers its own interpretation of Jean Luc-Godard’s statement: “Cinema is not a reproduction of reality, it is the forgetfulness of reality. But if someone records this forgetfulness, remembering is then possible and perhaps it would allow us to achieve the real.” It does not looks at films with the intention of knowing
how they were made, but in order to measure their potential effect on us and on our lives. In The Remembered Film, the artist Victor Burgin examined the kaleidoscope of film sequences that our memory carries across our perceptions and thoughts in the course of our daily life. The exhibition takes one step further, and looks at the way films could be a vehicle for making the real even more alive. The public will walk in a space that is neither
a white cube, nor a black box, where cinema is present not as a fabricator of myths, but in the way it reveals reality. Cinema here is a means to rearrange memory: to share perceptions and reconstructions of life, to share oblivion and record it. While bringing together three extremely different artistic practices, this exhibition is the meeting point where the artists explore the way specific films reorganize the processes of remembrance and the effect it has on the real.
Jumana Manna develops three-dimensional and solid spatial “projections”, namely sculptures, inspired by one of her videos, Blessed Blessed Oblivion. Kamal Aljafari’s project consists of a photographic series, a film and a book, drawn from existing feature films, taking us back to the history of his hometown, Jaffa, and making an Album of the Palestinian Community. La Ribot makes social and choreographic commentary on certain feature films, by re-filming them using their secondary scenes in the background.
For the occasion of the opening of Aftercinema, Beirut Art Center organizes a public talk with Marie Muracciole and the artists Kamal Aljafari, Jumana Manna and La Ribot. The talk will take place on the same day of the opening at 6 pm, in the Beirut Art Center auditorium.
Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, La Ribot
Aftercinema
20 May – 21 August 2015
Opening reception: Wednesday 20 May 2015, 6pm to 9pm
Beirut Art Center, Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon.
www.beirutartcenter.org
Hours: Please note that Beirut Art Center will be open on Sundays starting the 1st of March 2015, and will instead be closed on Mondays.
Tuesdays through Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 pm and Saturdays and Sundays, 11 am to 6 pm
No Admission Fee
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